Trump's Nationalist Appeal Fades When He Starts Winking At Putin

[Purveyor]

JULY 27, 2016 2:57 PM EDT

The word of the year 2016 has to be “nationalism.” All over the developed world, electorates seem discontented with elites who were too quick to embrace immigration and trade, too unwilling to value native culture, native workers, native interests over those of foreign lands. Donald Trump’s campaign has some unique American twists, but when you pull back the camera, he looks like part of a pattern of resurgent nationalism, nativism, a desire to hear a politician stand foursquare for “Us” against “Them.”

Trump has played on that desire very well, of course. At least, until now. Then today he gave a press conference where, among other things, he invited Russia to find and release missing e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s private server.

The possibility that Russia has been trying to influence this election has already been raised by reporters and Democrats. Trump seems to have a lot of Russian money in his projects, and his advisers have close ties to Vladimir Putin’s regime. He’s also considerably friendlier toward Putin than Republican candidates are wont to be. And the feeling seems to be mutual; Russian media backs Trump, and there are credible allegations that the recent leaks of Democratic National Committee e-mails, which started the Democratic convention on a chaotic note, were the product of a hack by Russian intelligence services.

This argument, however, is the sort that generally stays mostly within the wonk community. It’s a complicated “follow the money” story. Those always sound great in movies, but most readers (voters) are not going to sit still through your 15,000-word tour of banking statements and legal filings.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-27/trump-s-nationalist-appeal-fades-when-he-starts-winking-at-putin

[uponit7771]

1. The more he denies and is quiet the more the M$M should get up in his shit about this !!

[tallahasseedem]

2. I image that Bloomberg will start hammering at this

after his DNC speech!

[auntpurl]

3. Oh, this is good.

I just had a Twitter user who calls himself "Moderate Independent" and has a Kasich icon retweet the Whitehouse.gov petition to prevent Trump from getting security briefings that I posted.

[MoonRiver]

4. Is it me, or does Putin have stubby little fingers too?

[auntpurl]

5. Not surprising

All tough guy tyrants have tiny little...hands. They're compensating for SOMETHING!

[MoonRiver]

7. Ain't it the truth!

[renate]

6. the MSM wants a juicy story, whatever it is

It used to be Trump, now it's going to be his dealings. There is going to be a LOT of interesting stuff in his background. I'm feeling much better about November.